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"Waves in the sun, the white-winged gleam 
Of sea birds in the slanting beam, 
And far-off sails which flit before the 
south-wind free." 

—John G. Whittier. 




Along the Hampton SKore 



"We listen through long lapsing years 
To footsteps of the pioneers." 

W innicummet — The Past. 

own beside the ocean, and occupying five miles 
of New Hampshire's scant fourteen of sea- 
coast, where low green meadows touched now 
and then by the ebb and flow of the tide, and 
long lines of white, glistening sand dunes meet the eye 
of the summer sojourner, lies Hampton beach, a resort 
which from a very early time has achieved prominence, 
and which as the years go on, is making rapid strides 
as a popular vacation-time abiding place. 

Not far from Hampton Falls, where Whittier, the 
poet of New England, the friend of the slave and the 
Abolitionist passed his declining days ; on the ocean 
boulevard, one of the three state highways of New 
Hampshire, and within easy radius of Portsmouth, the 
quaint old seaport city, the place is one that is a?- 
cessible from all points, which may to some extent ac- 
count for the vast business which is steadily upon the 
increase. 

Soon after the settlement of Hampton by the Rev. 
Stephen Bachelor in 1638, the first road along the ocean 
front was laid out from Great Boar's Head to Ports- 
mouth. Bachelor, to whom the town owes its settle- 
ment, came from England, being more than seventy 
years of age when he arrived in America where he set 
out to try his fortunes. A little band of sturdy pi- 
oreers of his faith came with him, but before settling 
down in Winnicummet or "The Place of the Beautiful 
Pines" which the Indian name typifies. Bachelor and 
his followers m.ade short stays in Boston, Lynn, Ips- 
wich, and Newbury, none of which appealed to them as 
did Hampton, where they were given permission to 
settle by the General Court of Massachusetts. 



This pioneer band selected Hampton as an old 
record states, "on account of the great store of salt 
marsh which did intice the people to set down their 
habitation there, having about 450 heads of cattle." 
The name Winnicummet still survives in the calling 
of the main highway along the beach northerly toward 
Portsmouth from Great Boar's Head. 



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Looking up the Beach from Eoar s Head. 

Hampton and Hampton 1 each are also rich in 
their poetic heritage, and many spots have been made 
immortal by the lines of Whittier who spent many 
summers at the Gove homestead at Hampton Falls 
Avhere his death occurred in 1892. From his boyhood 
days he had frequently visited the seashore, driving 
down with the family to spend a day 

"Where the sunny waters break, 
And ripples the cool breeze." 

A tent was usually pitched for the day, the mem- 
bCTjU of the party passing the time merrily with the 
various recreations which the occasions offered. At 
noon a hot lunch would be served, and to the children 
the day was a gala one indeed. Many of the events 
and traditions the poet has immortalized in his flowing 
verse, and to the tourist today all these spots have 
the most hallowed associations. 




"The guests of summer time 

Pitched their white tents where sea- 
winds blew." 

Early Hostelries. 

ho first d-^.velling house erected at the beach wa^ 
in this srme locality, and was put up shortly 
before 1800. It v/as a rude log structure built 
ly one John Elkins who was born during the 
iievoluticnary War era. Later he sold the property 
to Moses Leavitt Av°ho kept a sort of tavern during the 
summer months wTien travel along the oce^n highway 
was more frequent. Leavitt 's wife was Molly Brown; 
famous as one of the best of cooks which was perhaps 
the reason that the Leavitt house was so well patro::- 
ized. From that time descendants of the Leavitts hav3 
1 een engaged in the hotel business, the present Leavitt 
hostelry being located at the bend in the road near 
Boar's Head, which for many years was the thickly 
settled section of the beach. 

For several de;ades the first Leavitt house wa". 
patronized by the fishermen who annually came down 
over the ro-id from Vermont to return, with loads of 
frozen miackerel, cod, and other fish which the beach 
residents had caught and cured. The local fishermen 
disposed of their spoils of the sea to the wholesale 
merchants, who in turn sold their fish mainly in the 
^'anadiaTiTn^rkets''." The industry wa^s a large one, and 
for Siome time the practice was carried on, Hampton 
be-^ch presenting a most active appearance during the 
fall and winter months. 

Another early house of entertainment was kept 
by Amos Leavitt and his two sons, Jacob and Mose^ 
and then followed the erestion of a small house "For 
Travailers," which was built in 1807 and kept by 
Laniel Lamprey. He was a farmer who owned and 



tilled considerable land in the vicinity of the beach. 
Lamprey also catered to what transient trade there 
was, and at times he made good profits. 

The year 1819 noted the building of the first 
actual hotel, and this was situated at Boar's Head. 
It was a large building for that time, commanding 
an unbroken view of the sea, the Isles of Shoals, and 
Agamenticus, with nearer at hand the Hampton mead- 
ows and marshes, and Rivermouth rocks, with the 
pines of Rye towering on the western horizon. 




Cutler's Sea View House. 



Abraham Marston was its proprietor, and for a 
long period the old hostelry was a familiar landmark 
for miles around. The building was finally destroyed 
by fire. 



About 1822 Richard Greenleaf kept a tavern 0:1 
the same site as the old Lamprey house, the buildiufir 
later teiug enlarged by Thomas Leavitt, who did busi- 
ness there until the place Avas burned to the ground. 

The old Granite house stood near the junction of 
the Hampton and Portsmouth roads, and was after- 
ward known as the Rockingham house. A quarter 
of a century or more ago it was acquired by Col. Steb- 
bins H. Eumas who carried on the hostelry for some 
time under the name of the Dumas house. 

The Nudd family has long figured prominently 
in the hotel life at Hampton beach, as far back as 1830, 
when Tavid Nudd built the Eagle house, the pla'^e 
having been used continuously as a hotel. It was later 
enlarged, and is still standim? and owned by the des- 
cendants of the original builder. Stacy Nudd for s ime 
time kept another hotel further to the south, near the 
present home of Ashton Lee, and finally this was re- 
namicd the Ocean house. The building was destroyed 
by fire in the conflagration of 1885 when 17 houses 
and the large skating rink were burned to the ground. 
Among these Avas Col. John G. Cutler's hotel, upon the 
site of which stands the present" Sea Yiew House, a 
hostelry that is known far and wide. The house w^as 
built in the short space of twenty-six days, and forty- 
two men were employed in the work, so that the build- 
ing was completed and ready for occupancy in time 
for the opening of the summer vacation business. This 
hotel has been the scene of innumerable political gath- 
erings;, dignitaries of both State and the National e'ov- 
ernmxent have been entertained beneath its hospitable 
roof, and guests from far and near have sat upon its 
piazzas or discoursed with its venerable proprietor. 
The interior walls of the house contain some notable 
paintings which were executed by the late Andrew 
Jackson Price of Exeter. The scenes portray bits of 
landscape and marine views, and have achieved for 
the artist many plaudits and con siderable renown. 
Col. Cutler was widelv known as an all-around hotel 



man, and for decades he was a familiar figure in -the 
civic life of the town and beach where he made his 
home throughout the year. His death occurred in 
February, 1913. 

The land grants made to both Georges and Mason 
included Hampton and the territory adjoining, and 
from a very early period there have been numerous 
mentions made of the town and its long expanse of 
sandy shore where 

"Wave after wave 

Breaks on the rocks, which stern and gray 
Shoulder the broken tide away, 
Or murmurs hoarse and strong through mossy 
cliff and cave." 




The Penobscomuck House. 
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"Once in the old Colonial days 

A boat sailed down through the winding ways 
Of Hampton river." 

The Wreck Of Rivermouth. 

n an autumn day in the far-off year 1657, a boat 
threaded its way among the low green marsh- 
lands, sailing from the village of Hampton 

^' 'twixt white sea-waves and sand hills 
brown," 

down to the little harbor, guarded on either hand by 
the Rivermouth rocks, marking the 

"broken lines of Hampton's shore." 

It Avas filled with a happy company bound for a 
day's fishing oft' the ledges, and all hearts were light 
and merry as the cloudlets in the sunny expanse o'er 
their heads. Little did its members realize that 

"The boat that went out at morning never 
Would sail again into Hampton river." 

Nor did the luckless maiden who laughed merrily 
at the old witch seated in the doorway on her miserable 
hut dream that 'ere many hours the happy excursion- 
ists would be cold in death on the selfsame rocks shin- 
ing so bright in the mellow sunshine. Whittier has told 
the tale in his "Wreck of Rivermouth," how Goody 
Cole made her imprecations as she watched the craft 
as it rounded the point where she 

"Sat by her door with her wheel atwhirl, 
A bent and blear-eyed poor old soul," 

how a sudden and violent storm came up in a trice, the 
wrath of the gale descending upon the fishers. Their 




The Surf At Rivarmouth. 

bodies, eight in all, were recovered a few days later, 
and their funerals were held 

''In Hampton town and its log-built church 
Where side by side the coffins lay." 

An old record in chronicling the affair says "The 
snd hand of God fell upon eight persons goeing in a 
vessell by sea from Hampton to boston who weio 
swallowed up in the ocean soon after they were out 
of the Harbour." 




"On stormy eves from cliff and head 
We saw the white spray tossed and 
spurned." 

Destructive Storms. 

^Jjampton has been the scene of several wrecks, 
contiagrations, and severe storms, the most 
disastrous of which was the the cyclone of 
July 4, 1894. Houses were demolished and 
blown into the sea, over twenty in all being destroyed. 
The large skating rink which stood at the upper end 
of the beach was blown down, and a yacht owned by 
Capt. Frank Nudd, with a party of nine, was badly 
battered by the raging storm, five being lost at sea, 
during the gale. The loss was estimated at several 
thousands of dolars, and it was some time before all 
traces of the debris had been cleared away. 





After the Winter Storms. 
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In February, 1723, there was a storm of unusual 
severity of which Cotton Mather, the early New Eng- 
land historian wrote ''The sea at Hampton was twenty 
inches higher than ever known before, and broke 
over the banks for miles, and continued running high 
for many hours." 

At another time there was a terrific hail storm 
so severe that the sand was covered with hail stones 
to a depth of more than a foot. The famous "Dark 
Day" of New England, May 19, 1780, was also espe- 
cially noticed at the beach, and many of the settlers 
in the village adjourned to the meeting house where 
they spent the entire day in fasting and prayer. 

The few dwellers at the seashore hurriedly made 
their way to town, taking with them their choicest 
possessions, and many were fearful that the Day of 
Judsrm.ent was at hand. 





"Alas the gallant ships that sailed 

On blind Adventure's errand sent." 



Coast Disasters. 

ne of the most notable Avreeks described in 
history was that of the St. George, one of 
his Majesty's mast ships which came ashore 
on the Hampton ledges. This was on Nov. 
30, 1764, the craft, which was one of the largest in 
the service, being bound from Boston to Portsmouth, 
where a cargo of masts from -the forests of New 
Hampshire, and marked with the King's arrow 
awaited shipment. The entire crew of seven was 
lost, the wreckage strewing the waterfront the entire 
length of the beach. Tradition states that the first 
rat was brought to this country by this same ship, 
ar.d Belknap, the historian, refers to the fact in his 
ehroniclings. The "Sir Francis," also a British steam- 
er Avith its cargo of tin-plate, iron and steel, was 
wrecked off the Hampton shore in February, 1873. 

The wreck of the'Glendon, a coal-carrying schoon- 
er occurred during the latter part of February, 1896. 
The craft was originally a steamship, and was convert- 
ed into, a three-master. She had a crew of seven men, 
and was driven ashore in a furious gale from the 
north east. The crew was saved, the life-savers from 
Wallis' Sands and the Straws Points stations render- 
ing valuable assistance. This wreck was largely re- 
sDonsible for the building of a government station at 
Hampton beach which was completed a year or two 
later. A cottage built about that time bears the name 
of the Glendon, and commemorates the^wreck. 



In a fierce storm on December 18, 1900, the small 
fishing schooner "Mary Brown" was driven into the 
harbor enclosed by Great Boar's Head on the north, 
and was badly battered, and for many hours at the 
mercy of the grales and heavy sea. She was a total 
loss, the captain and five men losing their lives. The 
remains of the craft are now beached opposite the 
Casino, a tablet telling the tale of the tragedy of the 
sea. 






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U. S. Life Saving Station and Boat. 



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"But beauty seen is never lost, 
God's colors all are fast." 

Natural Scenery. 

guardian of the sun-lit bay, whose broad flats 
at ebb tide furnish employment for scores 
of picturesque clammers, the rocks of River- 
mouth are among the most attractive of Hamp- 
ton 's many assets. The angry surf dasnes upon their 
rugged pinnacles here and there uncovered, great 
white-winged giills dance and wheel over the silvered 
waters, and the long, sandy expanse of beach shines and 
glimmers in the sun. In the late summer days great 
piles of salt hay, cured by the neighboring farmers, 
dot the marshes here and there, and at times one 
catches a glimpse of 

"The river winding down, sail-whitened, 
And beyond, the steeples of the town." 

Here innumerable creeks and inlets touched now 
and then by the oft-receding feet of the tide, are 
visited by the boats of the fishers, or in the autumn 
perchance ring with the hunter's gun, as the noisy 
sea-fowl are found in abundance. At evening, across 
the plain of marsh-land, the vacationist at Hampton 
may behold sunsets that are unrivalled for their beau- 
ty and wealth of color. Great crimson clouds fleck 
the whole western sky, illumined here and there by 
the golden rays of the departing sun which peer 
through and transfigure the entire horizon. 

Sometimes, too, 

"In calms of closing day" one sees 
"The spectral mirage play," a group of mag- 
icnl islands appearing seaward to the right of the 
Isles of Shoals, Avith a wondrously clear outline of a 



land fringed with stately palms, a vast settlement of 
houses with often a tall and stately minaret, and near- 
er at hand the mysterious vision of a ship, clearly 
diseernable, and apparently not far away. Gradually 
the vision fades, first growing less distinct, then a 
mist seems to envelop the entire scene, and a moment 
later the enchanted islands disappear from view as 
though a curtain had been let down from the azure 
blue sky, and falling into the sun-lit sea, had left the 
fairy islands in a world of their own, beyond the ken 
of mortal man. 




Across the Meadows When the North 
Wind Blows. 




"No task is ill where hand and brain 

And skill and strength have equal gain." 

Accomplishments Of Two Pioneers. 

n the olden days several vessels were built at 
Hampton, but the industry died out after the 
Revolution. Capt. Nathaniel Healey was the 
master spirit of this enterprise, and he also 
was the prime mover in the excavation of a canal 
which connected the Hampton and Merrimack rivers. 
The work was a most laborious one, but was finally 
completed in 1791, small vessels being enabled to go 
from one river to the other without putting out to sea. 
This was an important feature in those clays and the 
canal was used extensively by the fishermen who were 
in the habit of visiting Ipswich for their daily suj)- 
plies of bait. Capt. Healey, who spent nearly his en- 
tire fortune in the undertaking, Avas born in Ken- 
sington in 1757. He was graduated from Harvard 
College, and died in 1823. The canal is still navigable, 
although it has never been used to any great extent. 
Originally, most of the farmers in the neighbor- 
hood of Hampton owned some marshland or "mash" 
as even today it is called by the country folk of Sea- 
brook, a quaint old town close by. In 1662 the owners 
of land near the ocean were given permission "to set 
up gates" in order to prevent the cattle from tramj)- 
ling upon the grass. At this period many horses and 
cattle fed .at will along the marshes, their owners 
turning them loose in the fall to seek their own sus- 
tenance during the long, cold winter. A law put an 
end to this practice in 1671. 

William Hopkins, who came from England in 1848, 
conceived the idea of draining the marshes, and he at 
once set to work digging ditches which greatly im- 
proved both the ciuality and quantity of the grass 
which has ahvays been used extensively for winter 
feed for cattle. 

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Fire of Nov. 13, 1911, Which Destroyed 

Pentucket House. — Also Ruins of Priscilla 

Josephine and Stanwood Cottages. 




"You hear the pier's low undertone 
Of waves that chafe and gnaw." 

The Famous Mile-Long Bridge. 

o description of Hampton beach could be com- 
plete without mention of the famous "mile- 
long bridge," which spans Hampton river 
close to the point where it enters the sea, 
and is the connecting link on the ocean boulevard 
between the sister states of New Hampshire and 
Massachusetts. The structure is a remarkable feat 
of engineering, cleverly conceived by Wallace D. 
Lovell and built by his interests, with Ralph D. Hood 
of Haverhill, Mass., the designer. The bridge is now 
owned by the Massachusetts North Eastern company, 
and its trolley lines pass over it as they enter the ritate 
from the south east. During the summer season it is 
maintained as a toll-bridge and is the only structure 
of its kind in New Hampshire. The bridge is also 
famous as the longest wooden bridge in the world, and 
it was formally opened on May 14, 1902, being built 
at a cost of approximately $100,000. Its erection 
makes an uninterrupted electric shore line from the 
Merrimack to the Piscataqua rivers, passing through 
three states. It lacks but two hundred feet of being 
a mile in length, and is built on wooden piles of which 
an enormous number was required. 

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The dedication of the long structure was marked 
by elaborate exercises which took place mid-way upon 
the bridge, after the first car had been run over it 
with former Governor Chester B. Jordan of New Hamp- 
shire at the controller, and with other dignitaries and 
officials upon the front platform. In the middle of the 
bridge a temporary platform had been raised, draped 
with the national colors, and while a brass band fur- 
nished music, appropriate dedicatory exercises took 
place. Gov. Jordan, who was one of the first speakers, 
commented upon the immensity and wonder of the 
bridge, and congratulated the architects and designers. 




Whittiers — An Ancient Tavern. 

Others who gave short addresses were Hon. Henry 
M. Putney, chairman of the New Hampshire railroad 
commissioners • Hon. 'N. J. Baehelder, Master of the 
State Grange; Hon. John McLane of Milford, and Dr. 
Charles S. Murkland, president of the State College 
at Durham. The exercises were preceded by an elabo- 
rate dinner at Whittier's Hotel for which more than 
two hundred covers were laid, the Governor and mem- 
bers of his staff being among the honorary guests, 
with manj^ officials of Rockingham and Essex counties. 



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From this great wooden structure, the tourist 
secures a view of sea and shore that is truly magnifi- 
(ent. The rugged outlines at the mouth of the river, 
the occasional gleam of a white sail dotting the great 
blue expanse of the sea, the bold and rocky promon- 
tory of Boar's Head, innumerable creeks and inlets 
bordered by the sea grass brown and sere, and 

"The gulls in the red of the morning. 
And the fish-hawk's rise and fall," 

all make a scene that is accentuated now and then by 

"The low bare flats at ebb-tide, 
And the rush of the sea at flood," 

so that one who stands upon the great causeway be- 
holds a panorama which can never be forgotten. 

The harbor at Hampton during the summer 
months is fairly alive with small sailing craft, and one 
hears the almost constant "chug-chug" of the motor 
boats, swift little water- sprites which are fast replac- 
ing the dories and sail boats once so commonly made 
use of by the fishers Avho with sails all furled started 
out to sea when 

"The west-wind came freshening down the 
bay." 

Great white-winged gulls, the curlew, gray and 
serene, and scores of smaller sea-birds have their 
haunts here, and frequently the air is dense with their 
flapping wings, rising as a cloud of vapor from their 
feeding grounds, the flats and marshlands. 

White Island is a popular section of Hampton's 
summer colony, and within the last few years scores 
of cottages have been erected here. 

The old-time name of "Squatter's Island" is now 
nearly forgotten, only one or two of the original huts 
recalling the days when ITampton was unknown as a 
summer play-ground and before its possibilities be- 
came known in more than twenty states whose resi- 
dents are numbered among the colonists of the pres- 
ent day. 

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The Famous Mile-Long Bridge Spanninc 
Hampton River. 



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"By the Slimmer sea 

Whose sands are traversed by a throng 
Of voyagers." 

The Resort Of Today. 

he summer homes are of more than ordinary 
beauty, and many are most artistically de- 
signed, with flower beds and walks lined with 
shells which contribute t^ the attractivenes.:; 
of the place as a resort. 

There are several large hotels as well, including! 
the Ocean House, next beyond the large Casino, with 
its several thousand feet of veranda space, the Janvrin, 
The Ashworth, the Pelham, the Hill-Crest Inn, the 
Avon, and many others, all of which have full cpiotas 
of guests during the summer season. 




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The Pelham. 

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Picturesque £t. ret:rs-by-the-Sea. 



St. Peter's By-the-Sea, a pretty rustic chapel was 
vSedicated with appropriate ceremonies on July 21, 
1912, the rector, Rev. Charles W. Tyler, D. D., of St. 
John's church, Haverhill, Mass., and the Bishop coad- 
jutator of the New Hampshire diocese, participating". 
The building cost approximately $3500, and was the 
result of four years of activity upon the part of Rev. 
JJr. Tyler who had the distinction of erecting the first 
church edifice upon Hampton Beach. The altar was 
the gift of St. Mark's society of Fall River, Mass., and 
the bell formerly hung in the old Wingate church in 
Haverhill. 

Here, too, is Bethany Cottage, a summer home for 
ithe fresh-air movement which is maintained 'by the 
'City Mission of Manchester, N. H., the work each 
season being in charge of Miss Mattie E. Strong, the 
city missionary. The house was first opened in 1936 
and each year the w^ork has been materially increased. 
The home of the mission was originally a part of the 
old Boar's Head Hotel, and it commands a fine view 
for miles around. Many of its rooms are memorial 



rooms and not only individuals, but clubs and societies 
have assisted in the enterprise. Now and then one of 
the little waifs tiptoes in and deposits in some drawer 
or hiding place wonderful treasures gleaned from the 
sea close by. There are shells of wondrous beauty, the 
curious star-fish, great, round sand dollars, and even 
snail and clam shells, the results of happy hours spent 
in busy search along the sandy shore, which are to be 
treasured tenderly and taken back to the hot and 
crowded city to show to father, and mother and young- 
er sisters and brothers. And so each diy passes much 
the same, and often at nightfall all gather in the big 
living room and the sonn- books are distributed before 
going to bed. "America" is about the only song 
each child is certain to know, and a passer-by in the 
early evening hours wiien the shadows are des3endin r 
upon the little settlement hic^'h on the frowning cliff 
might hear a score of childish voices in jubilant 
singing : — 

"I love thy rocks and rills, 

Thy woods and templed hills. 

Thy name I love." 




'The Ashworth Stands on an Elevation' 



Then quiet pervades the rest cottage, as the tired, 
happy, children Hoat away to Dreamhmd in their neat, 
white cots. 

High on Boar's Head, standing as a sentinel to 
the gateway of the sea is the water tower, a familiar 
landmark to the coasting steamers as well as to the 
residents cf the neighboring towns of Hampton, Nort^ 
Hampton, Seabrook, and Rye. Its height is ninety 
feet, and its Avidth tifteen feet, the structure standing 
on a firm cement base. From this reservoir water i^ 
distributed throughout the beach, ai:d it also pro- 
vides protection in case of fire. Volunteer fire com- 
panies have been formed, and much has been accom- 
plished in guarding a;^ainst such conflagrations as i:i 
times past have Avrought irretrievable damage. 




The Hill-Crest Inn. 



The beach is fine and hard, and at low tide walks 
,'^long the shore and the sea-wall walk are pleasint 
forms of recreation. The Casino contains a spacious 
dance hall, a theatre, and dining room, the large build- 
irg ; einfj' the centre of social life wh?n the seison is on. 




Summer Home of W. F. Thayer.— A 
Rtstic Bungalow at North Beach. 



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Daily band concerts on the ocean front are popu- 
lar with the vacationists at this fine coast resort, 
while scores of summer people enjoy the sea bathing 
which is safe from all under-tow which makes Salis- 
bury beach, the neighboring beach resort so dangerous 
for this pastime. 

A long row of electric lights has recently been 
installed along the sea-wall, and at night when these 
are illuminated, the beach is a veritable line of red 
and white lights, making a display that is exceedingly 
picturesque. 




'Daily Band Concerts are Popular" 




The Janvrin Hotel. 



Each year "Governor's Day" is one of the gala 
events at the beach, the governor of New Hampshire 
find his staff coming annually to participate in the field 
day exercises of the New Hampshire State Grange, 
which are usually of an elaborate nature. A baseball 
oval in the rear of the Casino, attractions of the Mid- 
way, and like amusements are among the features of 
entertainment at Hampton which makes the resort a 
popular one with church and charitable societies, who, 
during: the year enjoy many outings here. 




The Hampton Inn. 
Looking North Along the Sea Wall Walk 



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"I know not what the future hath 
Of marvel or surprise." 




Winniciimmet — The Future 

s in a few years such progTess and achievement 
has been realized at Hampton Beach, and a 
resort that was previously comparatively un- 
known has forged to the front among the 
notable watering places of New Hampshire, so in the 
years to come a still greater era of success may confi- 
dently be expected with the result that h decade hence 
it will take the most vivid imagination to picture 
Hampton as it was a score of years ago, before its 
possibilities were known or appreciated. 

The gull and angry fish-hawk will continue to fly 
close to its crested waves at Rivermouth, and even in 
the darkest storm and frantic gale the light at Star 
will shine through the gloom as the lone watcher on 
his coast patrol hastens along the sandy beach on guard 
for the welfare of those "who go down to the sea in 
ships." 



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A Bungalcw Near Nudd's Field. 



JUN 2] 1913 



"Just then the ocean seemed 

To lift a half-faced moon in sight, 

And shoreward o'er the waters gleamed 

From crest to crest a line of light, 

Such as of old with solemn awe 

The fishers of Gennesaret saw." 



